DOCSLIB.ORG

Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE E-Mail: Roger [email protected]

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE E-Mail: Roger Johnson@Hotmail.Com THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCIETY OF LONDON Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE e-mail: [email protected] no. 217 7th December 2001 To renew your subscription, send 12 stamped, self-addressed Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, Russia, Italy and Spain! The envelopes or (overseas) send 12 International Reply Coupons or names of John Hall, Hirayama Yuichi, Carolyn & Joel Senter, Stu £6.00 or US$13.00 for 12 issues. Dollar checks should be payable to Shiffman, Sébastien Le Page, Mia Stampe, Jean-Pierre Cagnat and Jean Upton. Dollar prices quoted without qualification refer to US Wladimir Bogomoletz alone should have the Sherlockian grinning dollars. Please note that I give such addresses and prices as I have. happily. This latest addition to a distinguished series can be had for If I don’t provide details of importers or agents, it’s because I don’t £9.00 post-paid from John Hall (20 Drury Avenue, Horsforth, have those details. LeedsLS18 4BR), or for $12.00 plus postage from Classic Specialties From CADS 40 I learn of the deaths this year of two fine British (PO Box 19058, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA). actors. Norman Rodway was Dr Watson to Ronald Pickup’s Watson’s Weapons — For and Against by Dr Tim Healey is the Holmes in Cecil Jenkins’ 1990 BBC Radio 3 play The Singular Case latest publication of the Friends of Dr Watson. If you want to know of Sherlock H and Sigmund F . Paul Daneman played Watson in what life was like for the British army medico in Afghanistan 120 Gillette’s play at the old Birmingham Rep in 1952, to Alfred Burke’s years ago, it’s all here. This 44-page A4 booklet costs £7.00 or Holmes; in 1968 he was the Sholto brothers in BBC TV’s production $14.00 to non-members (sterling cheques payable to Richard J. of The Sign of Four with Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock. Richard Stacpoole-Ryding; US dollars in cash, please), from Richard Dalby notes the death on 31 October of Jenny Laird , whose long Stacpoole-Ryding, 14 Western Close, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 4SZ. acting career included playing Mrs Hudson in The Masks of Death Over the years various pranksters have devised comic captions for (1984), with Cushing and John Mills. Victorian illustrations, most of them genuinely funny, thank heaven. Barrie Roberts is one of the most reliable writers of new Sherlock Eric Monahan’s new 40-page booklet Sherlock Holmes Illustrated, Holmes stories, so I’m delighted to see his first novel Sherlock with Alternative Captions stands up well, and would make a nice Holmes and the Railway Maniac newly reissued in an attractive silly Christmas present — for a friend or for yourself. You can buy paperback edition by Allison & Busby (Suite 111, Bon Marche copies post-paid at £4.70 or $8.95 from Highcliff, 14 Silver Bridge Centre, 241 Ferndale Road, London SW9 BJ; £6.99). He captures the Close, Broadsands Park, Paignton, Devon TQ4 7NW. Watson-Doyle style better than most, and he knows his Canon and Eric tells me that Sayers on Holmes: Essays and Fiction on Sherlock his history. It’s astonishing that no one else seems to have thought of Holmes, published by the Mythopoeic Society (Joan Marie Verba, having Holmes investigate the anarchist outrages that culminated in PO Box 1363, Minnetonka, MN 55346, USA) at $9.50, is in stock at the siege of Sidney Street in 1912. Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Crime In Store (14 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9HE) at £8.99. Maniac is an engrossing and intelligent read. I look forward to seeing the rest of Barrie Roberts’ books in paperback. On Thursday 13 December there’ll be a sale of ‘valuable printed books and manuscripts’ at Sotheby’s (34-35 New Bond Street, Also from Allison & Busby, but in hardcover at £17.99, is The Secret London W1A 2AA; phone 020 7293 5000), which will include Diary of Dr Watson by Anita Janda. It’s not a new idea to present the various works by Arthur Conan Doyle as well as items from his uncensored truth behind the published writings, but other writers library (among them Bram Stoker’s The Mystery of the Sea inscribed have used it to parody the Canon; Ms Janda gives us a generally to Sir Arthur ‘from his old friend’ the author), and several plausible and always entertaining account of what really happened in watercolours by Richard Doyle. These lots are ‘the property of a those cases of the Severed Ears, the Phantom Hound, Black Jack of great nephew of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’. (*Any prizes for guessing Ballarat and the rest. In addition she gives us a self-portrait of an which one?*) Viewing is on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and intelligent, thoughtful, courageous and very likable man. It’s right Wednesday. Well worth a visit, I’d say. that Watson’s name should be in the title: The Secret Diary of Dr Watson is his story, not Holmes’s, and the better for it. I wonder if There are new catalogues available from Janus Books (PO Box Ms Janda will be tempted to continue the diary . I almost hope not. 40787, Tucson, AZ 85717, USA) and Classic Specialties (PO Box 19058, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA) — both with a good amount of Just published at £8.99 by the Mercat Press (53 South Bridge, Sherlockiana. Classic Specialties carry a lot besides books, of course. Edinburgh EH1 1YS) is McLevy: The Edinburgh Detective by James McLevy. The splendid cover photograph of Edinburgh in the 1890s CADS 40 is, as always with this splendid magazine, full of gives a slightly false impression, but it’s the only wrong thing about stimulating and entertaining articles about Crime And Detective this excellent book. McLevy, an Irishman with no love for the Stories. Nothing specifically Sherlockian this time, but CADS is a English, entered the city’s police force in 1830, became a detective must if you’re at all interested in the field. The price is: UK £5.00; three years later, and wrote these memoirs in the 1850s. Quintin Europe £5.50; USA (airmail) $10.00, (surface) $9.00. Sterling Jardine, who has written a foreword to this new edition, observes: cheques should be payable to G.H. Bradley; US payments should be ‘McLevy was clearly a one-off, a character who would have trouble in dollar bills. (Geoff Bradley, 9 Vicarage Hill, South Benfleet, fitting into a modern police force, yet whose perception and Essex SS7 1PA.) knowledge of his streets and his subjects would have made him too Play the Game: Victorian and Edwardian Sporting Songs is a valuable to be excluded from it.’ This welcome new edition of his delicious CD of ditties on the subject of, well, just about every sport writings shows us the city into which Arthur Conan Doyle would be known to our great-grandparents — cycling, rugger, boating, golf, born in 1859 — but that’s a bonus. McLevy: The Edinburgh billiards, soccer ... and huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’. Arthur Conan Detective is a cracking good read. Doyle is represented as the author of ‘A Hunting Morning’, from his Volume 11 of The Shoso-in Bulletin sums up the international nature 1898 book Songs of Action . Listening to Ian Partridge, Peter Savidge of our great game, boasting as it does contributors from Japan, the and the Song & Supper Club, with Jennifer Partridge on piano, is like USA, the UK, the Czech Republic, France, Denmark, Taiwan, attending a really good smoking concert at an Edwardian country house — gorgeous! The CD is available at major record stores or direct from the publishers, Just Accord Music (PO Box 224, Holmes , with Clive Merrison & Michael Williams, as a boxed set of Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5YJ) at £9.99 post-paid. 36 cassettes with Bert Coules’s book, at £112.50. The recent, very entertaining BBC TV drama series Murder Rooms is It must be the Silly Season. According to the Torquay Herald just out on video. I need hardly remind you that these fictional Express for 2 November, Rodger Garrick-Steele now accuses Arthur mysteries deal with the friendship between the young Arthur Conan Conan Doyle of murdering Charles Dawson — to cover up his Doyle and his mentor Dr Joseph Bell — recreating them, in effect, as (ACD’s) perpetration of the Piltdown hoax. What next — the Watson and Holmes. Charles Edwards (who was, astonishingly, invasion of Poland? allowed to play the part clean-shaven) is pleasant enough as Conan The Harpooners of the Sea Unicorn will talk about ‘The Blue Doyle, but it’s Ian Richardson who’s the real star of these films . He Carbuncle’ after dinner on 15 December (Michael E. Bragg, Box is quite superb as Dr Bell — authoritative, coldly scientific, but 799, St Charles, MO 63302-0799, USA). humane. The plots, particularly of The White Knight Stratagem , are elegant and ingenious (though The Patient’s Eyes does tend to give The Annual Dinner of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London will the impression that Conan Doyle must have been incapable of be held at the House of Commons on Saturday 5 January. The Guest inventing a character or a situation, instead drawing everything from of Honour will be the Commissioner of the City of London Police, his own experience). The supporting casts are impressive — John Perry Nove, QPM. The previous evening there’ll be a Club Night at Sessions, Rik Mayall, Annette Crosbie, Anton Lesser, et al. And by the New Commonwealth Club in Northumberland Avenue, to which golly, the films look good.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press 2015
    Jan 15 #1 Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press Sherlockians (and Holmesians) gathered in New York to celebrate the Great Detective's 161st birthday during the long weekend from Jan. 7 to Jan. 11. The festivities began with the traditional ASH Wednesday dinner sponsored by The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes at Annie Moore's, and continued with the Christopher Morley Walk led by Jim Cox and Dore Nash on Thursday morn- ing, followed by the usual lunch at McSorley's. The Baker Street Irregulars' Distinguished Speaker at the Midtown Executive Club on Thursday evening was Alan Bradley, co-author of MS. HOLMES OF BAKER STREET (2004), and author of the award-winning "Flavia de Luce" series; the title of his talk was "Ha! The Stars Are Out and the Wind Has Fallen" (his paper will be published in the next issue of The Baker Street Journal). The William Gillette Luncheon at Moran's Restaurant was well attended, as always, and the Friends of Bogie's at Baker Street (Paul Singleton and An- drew Joffe) entertained the audience with an updated version of "The Sher- lock Holmes Cable Network" (2000). The luncheon also was the occasion for Al Gregory's presentation of the annual Jan Whimsey Award (named in memory of his wife Jan Stauber), which honors the most whimsical piece in The Ser- pentine Muse last year: the winner (Jenn Eaker) received a certificate and a check for the Canonical sum of $221.17. And Otto Penzler's traditional open house at the Mysterious Bookshop provided the usual opportunities to browse and buy.
    [Show full text]
  • Performing Sherlock : a Study in Studio and Location Realism Hewett, RJ
    Performing Sherlock : a study in studio and location realism Hewett, RJ Title Performing Sherlock : a study in studio and location realism Authors Hewett, RJ Type Book Section URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/34863/ Published Date 2018 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at: [email protected]. Performing Sherlock: A Study in Studio and Location Realism Given his status as one of literature’s most popular creations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes – usually accompanied by his faithful chronicler, Doctor Watson - has been less ubiquitous on British television screens than might be imagined. Having debuted in 1951, played by Andrew Osborn in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (BBC), the Baker Street sleuth returned a few months later in the guise of Alan Wheatley for a series of six live plays. Viewers then had to wait until 1965 for a home-grown run of episodes,1 this time featuring Douglas Wilmer; when this production returned in 1968, it was Peter Cushing who donned the deerstalker. In 1984 Granada’s series saw Jeremy Brett injecting a seven per cent solution in the long-running and popular production, but following Brett’s death in 1995 there were few attempts to revive Holmes in the UK, and audiences had to wait until 2010 for the character’s enormously successful 21st century reimagining in the form of Sherlock (BBC, 2010- ), starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
    [Show full text]
  • THE NEWSLETTER of the SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCIETY of LONDON Dr
    THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCIETY OF LONDON http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/ Dr. Carrie Parris e-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @SHSLondon Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheSherlockHolmesSocietyofLondon no. 357 4 January 2016 Belated compliments of the season and a happy new year to you all. To clarify a note from the previous DM, Flicker Alley’s BluRay/DVD I spent a very pleasant New Year’s Eve in Whitstable, the Kentish release of William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes (1916) is region-free. seaside town that was once home to Peter Cushing. Should you ever I have played my copy on a number of different UK devices with no travel to the area, you can still visit some of his regular haunts, such problem whatsoever. It is also an incredibly comprehensive release, as the Tudor Tea rooms (29 Harbour Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 featuring two complete versions of the film (the original discovered 1AH, 01227 273167, http://goo.gl/s76hk4). There is also a Peter French-language version, and an English-language version translated Cushing-themed Wetherspoons Pub, located in a former cinema that from the French). There is a wealth of bonus material, including features sumptuous art deco furnishings. The pub currently has a newsreel footage, a typescript of the play, Robert Byrne’s small display of film posters and stills from Hammer’s The Hound of presentation from the 2015 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, et al. the Baskervilles (1959) just inside the entrance (16–18 Oxford Street, There are even other short movies thrown in: Sherlock Holmes Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1DD, 01227 284100, Baffled (1900); A Canine Sherlock (1912); and Italian trick-film Più https://goo.gl/VD5jR4).
    [Show full text]
  • Review of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, DVD Box set, 4 discs, London: BBC/BFI, 2015. BFIV2040; £39.99 Reviewed by John Keefe (London Metropolitan University, UK) The Literary London Journal, Volume 12 Number 1–2 (Spring/Autumn 2015) The recent BBC TV Timeshift documentary How To Be Sherlock Holmes—The Many Faces of a Master Detective (2015) traced the history of these faces from Sidney Paget’s original illustrations and William Gillette’s stage adaptation (1899), the first screen version (1900), through the various cinema and television Holmes (including Eille Norwood 1921, Basil Rathbone 1939, Peter Cushing 1959, Jeremy Brett 1985) to the most recent (Robert Downey Jnr 2009, Benedict Cumberbatch 2010). Across these adaptations and characterisations, we see a figure who remains rooted in his Victorian origins, is regarded as both a genesis and a template of what has become the fictional detective, and is a reflection of the social-cultural preoccupations that inform each adaptation. In this last, we see a theme true of all such adaptations and translations, with each mirroring the period of making as well as that of the setting. Thus this release of the surviving thirteen episodes of the Douglas Wilmer-Nigel Stock series from the mid-1960s reverts to the Victorian settings of the original (in contrast to the modernising of Holmes in the Universal Studios series or Sherlock of 2010) but adds a knowing humour taken further by Billy Wilder’s film of 1970. Similarly, the imagery of Holmes familiar to us from the Paget illustrations and now our received idea of Holmes with his pipes, deerstalker hat and caped coat are here but at the same time are played with as mannerisms that seem ‘out-of-joint’ against a background of contemporary pop music, fashions and social satire.
    [Show full text]
  • Newsletter 16/09 DIGITAL EDITION Nr
    ISSN 1610-2606 ISSN 1610-2606 newsletter 16/09 DIGITAL EDITION Nr. 258 - September 2009 Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd LASER HOTLINE - Inh. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Wolfram Hannemann, MBKS - Talstr. 3 - 70825 K o r n t a l Fon: 0711-832188 - Fax: 0711-8380518 - E-Mail: [email protected] - Web: www.laserhotline.de Newsletter 16/09 (Nr. 258) September 2009 editorial Hallo Laserdisc- und DVD-Fans, wird Sie auch wieder auf den Seiten 4 spricht Annas Vater!” Schließlich war liebe Filmfreunde! bis 6 begrüßen und Ihnen erzählen, es Jochen Rudschies, der seiner Toch- welche Filme Sie demnächst anschauen ter Anna die Filmleidenschaft sozusa- Es sieht ganz danach aus, dass wir es und welche Werke Sie tunlichst meiden gen in die Wiege gelegt hat. Bravo Jo- wieder einmal mühelos geschafft ha- sollten. Als weiteren besonderen Ser- chen – gut gemacht! Und wenn Ihnen ben, den für unseren Newsletter vorge- vice für unsere Leser finden Sie ab Sei- das gefällt, was Annas Daddy für uns gebenen Rahmen von 60 Seiten zu te 7 das ausführliche Programm zum “5. schreibt, dann schreiben Sie ihm doch sprengen. Gut für unsere Leser – Todd-AO 70mm Filmfestival” in der einfach. Denn nicht nur Anna freut schlecht für uns. Denn je mehr wir Ih- Karlsruher Schauburg. Wie jedes Jahr sich über Feedback! Übrigens: sollten nen an Lesestoff verabreichen, desto so werden wir auch dieses Mal wieder Sie sich jetzt durch den Einsatz von größer die Gefahr, dass wir beim Heften ganztägig vor Ort sein und das Festival Annas Vater dazu motiviert fühlen, sich der Print-Version selbst Hand anlegen tatkräftig unterstützen.
    [Show full text]
  • Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE E-Mail: [email protected] No
    THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCIETY OF LONDON Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE e-mail: [email protected] no. 315 11 September 2011 The correct answers to the competition in the last issue: 1. Felix Felton campaign against fraudulent mediums was never wholly free of self- dramatised The Hound of the Baskervilles for Carleton Hobbs and interest: he was always primarily a showman. Richard Lancelyn Green, Norman Shelley. He had also written all the scripts for Hobbs & I remember, said of Conan Doyle, ‘Everything he did smacked of Shelley’s earlier Holmes series on Children’s Hour . 2. Michael opportunism and superficiality,’ but Mr Sandford concludes, probably Hardwick’s three well-regarded Sherlock Holmes novels are The rightly, that his Spiritualist campaign was inspired by a genuine faith in Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (jointly with Mollie Hardwick), the improvement of humanity. The one disappointing feature of Prisoner of the Devil and The Revenge of the Hound . I also accepted Houdini and Conan Doyle is that the many quotations and accounts are Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes and The Private Life of Dr not specifically credited. It’s encouraging to know that the author Watson . 3. The actors who, unlike Hobbs and Shelley, played Sherlock ‘consulted a variety of journals, magazines and newspapers’ – some Holmes and Dr Watson in all sixty stories on BBC radio were Clive titles are mentioned – but a book of this quality really ought to have Merrison and Michael Williams. proper references. The three winners, chosen at random from a gratifying number of New novels from MX Publishing ( www.mxpublishing.co.uk ; correct entries, are Philip J Attwell , Peter Hartland and Tim www.mxpublishing.com ).
    [Show full text]
  • Sherlock Holmes Films
    Checklist of Sherlock Holmes (and Holmes related) Films and Television Programs CATEGORY Sherlock Holmes has been a popular character from the earliest days of motion pictures. Writers and producers realized Canonical story (Based on one of the original 56 s that use of a deerstalker and magnifying lens was an easily recognized indication of a detective character. This has led to stories or 4 novels) many presentations of a comedic detective with Sherlockian mannerisms or props. Many writers have also had an Pastiche (Serious storyline but not canonical) p established character in a series use Holmes’s icons (the deerstalker and lens) in order to convey the fact that they are acting like a detective. Derivative (Based on someone from the original d Added since 1-25-2016 tales or a descendant) The listing has been split into subcategories to indicate the various cinema and television presentations of Holmes either Associated (Someone imitating Holmes or a a in straightforward stories or pastiches; as portrayals of someone with Holmes-like characteristics; or as parody or noncanonical character who has Holmes's comedic depictions. Almost all of the animation presentations are parodies or of characters with Holmes-like mannerisms during the episode) mannerisms and so that section has not been split into different subcategories. For further information see "Notes" at the Comedy/parody c end of the list. Not classified - Title Date Country Holmes Watson Production Co. Alternate titles and Notes Source(s) Page Movie Films - Serious Portrayals (Canonical and Pastiches) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1905 * USA Gilbert M. Anderson ? --- The Vitagraph Co.
    [Show full text]
  • THE DISTRICT MESSENGER the Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE
    THE DISTRICT MESSENGER The Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE opinions expressed are the editor’s unless noted otherwise no. 163 31st August 1996 To renew your subscription, send 12 stamped, self-addressed Volume 6 of The Shoso-in Bulletin is out, maintaining the envelopes or (overseas) send 12 International Reply series’ high reputation, with contributions from the USA, Coupons or £5.50 or US$11.00 for 12 issues. Dollar checks Japan, India, Sweden, France, Australia, Switzerland, should be payable to Jean Upton. Germany — and the UK (our own Eric Monahan and Philip Weller). The 162 strongly bound pages contain a delightful The Daily Telegraph for 20th August reported that Sir variety of scholarship, fantasy, humour and extrapolation, Arthur Conan Doyle’s archives are at last to be released to nicely edited by Mel Hughes for The Men with the Twisted the family, which should make things a lot easier for future Konjo (Stu Shiffman’s cover shows a marvellously Japanese biographers. Holmes and Watson in a Japanese Baker Street sitting- room). European readers can get copies for £7.50, including Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Case of the Ruanian postage, from John Hall, 20 Drury Avenue, Horsforth, Leeds Accession by Jim Sperinck (Jasper Publishing, 1 Broad LS18 4BR, England (cheques payable to John Hall). North Street, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 5BW; £3.90) is an Americans should contact Jennie C. Paton, 206 Loblolly exciting full-length (and full-blooded) drama involving Lane, Statesboro, GA 30458, USA.
    [Show full text]
  • Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes
    Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes See also: Pop culture references to Sherlock Holmes “Thank you, but I'm afraid the pipe is purely for show these days.” The stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Holmes was also featured prominently in issue 13 of the Doyle were very popular as adaptations for the stage, DC/WildStorm series Planetary. Holmes is shown to be and later film, and still later television. The Universal in league with Bram Stoker's Dracula in the story. A Sherlock Holmes (1995) by Ronald B. DeWaal lists over Charlton Comics series depicted a Holmes based in New 25,000 Holmes-related productions and products. York City. SelfMadeHero published “Hound of the Baskervilles”, adapted by Ian Edginton and illustrated by Ian Culbard, 1 Board games in May 2009. Holmes is referred to and briefly featured in Alan Moore's • Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (gamebook) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Holmes appears (1981) (Sleuth Publications) (book-based game) in a flashback sequence depicting the climactic scene of • 221B Baker Street (Gibsons Games) The Adventure of the Final Problem and is still believed by the public to be deceased following the events of that • Watson & Holmes. From the Diaries of 221B (2015) story, although it is revealed in the second volume that (Ludonova) Mina later meets with him. Warren Ellis's Aetheric Mechanics is primarily inspired by Sherlock Holreimanmes, while being a mashup of 2 Comic strip Holmesiana with other contemporary works. In the Italian comic book Martin Mystère and spin-off se- Three Sherlock Holmes adaptations have appeared in ries Storie di Altrove/Stories from Elsewhere Holmes is a American newspapers.
    [Show full text]
  • Read Book Stage Whispers: Douglas Wilmer, the Memoirs Pdf Free
    STAGE WHISPERS: DOUGLAS WILMER, THE MEMOIRS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Douglas Wilmer | 242 pages | 16 Mar 2009 | Porter Press International | 9780955656491 | English | Tenbury Wells, United Kingdom Stage Whispers: Douglas Wilmer, the Memoirs PDF Book Helen Fielding. Julie Garwood. ML U3A5 - Ref. Polmantier and Edward C. They are an interesting counterpoint to the Granada series of the s, where money was clearly lavished on sets and location work and many liberties were taken in stretching stories out, and their pace is probably best described as very genteel in comparison to contemporary television but these faithful, if rather economic, adaptations are worth viewing for the Wilmer and Stock interpretations of the Doyle characters. These deals on earbuds, gaming headsets, noise-canceling headphones and more are too good to ignore. Paula Hawkins. Louise L. Posebne priprave. A Sherlock for all seasons. Lila Prap. However, viewers were more concerned about the correct depiction of an opium den, according to the Radio Times letters page, than what was then the common practice of asking a Caucasian actor in this instance Danish-English Olaf Pooley to 'black up' and play ethnic stereotypes like the Lascar. Director General Frank Collins Freelance writer and film and television researcher for hire. The English legal system. But there was no escaping his most famous role and he came to embrace the praise bestowed upon his performance by admirers such as the Sherlock Homes Society of London, which appointed him an honorary member. The Locomotive Engine. Katerina Diamond. Adapting the Holmes canon was not a new undertaking for the BBC. There is also a generous selection of extra features to complete a very welcome DVD release.
    [Show full text]
  • Surveying the Evolution of Dr. John H
    Clemson University TigerPrints All Theses Theses 12-2009 'Age Doth Not Wither Nor Custom Stale my Infinite Variety': Surveying the Evolution of Dr. John H. Watson through 70 Years of The Hound of the Baskervilles on Screen Ashley Polasek Clemson University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses Part of the Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation Polasek, Ashley, "'Age Doth Not Wither Nor Custom Stale my Infinite Variety': Surveying the Evolution of Dr. John H. Watson through 70 Years of The Hound of the Baskervilles on Screen" (2009). All Theses. 694. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/694 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “AGE DOTH NOT WITHER NOR CUSTOM STALE MY INFINITE VARIETY”: SURVEYING THE EVOLUTION OF DR. JOHN H. WATSON THROUGH 70 YEARS OF THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES ON SCREEN A Thesis Presented to The Graduate School of Clemson University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts English by Ashley D. Polašèk December 2009 Accepted by: Dr. R. Barton Palmer, Committee Chair Dr. Kimberly Manganelli Dr. Brian McGrath ABSTRACT The sixty tales that comprise the Sherlock Holmes Canon hold a unique place in the realm of both adaptation studies and culture studies. The stories were originally written at a time concurrent with the birth of cinema; Holmes was part of the vanguard of literary figures to appear on film.
    [Show full text]
  • Canon Doyle?: Getting Holmes Right (And Getting the Rights) for Television
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Salford Institutional Repository Canon Doyle?: Getting Holmes Right (and Getting the Rights) for Television Richard Hewett Introduction Given the developments in adaptation studies over recent years, an article on television representations of Sherlock Holmes which prided themselves on fidelity to Conan Doyle might seem somewhat retrograde. The field has long since moved beyond what Sarah Cardwell terms ‘cultural adaptation’ (Cardwell 13-15), where the primary focus of study is the relationship between a screen adaptation and the literary text from which it derives. This ‘centre-based’ approach, designed to examine the fidelity of the screen version to the perceived ‘original’, ignores the possibility of ‘genetic’ adaptation, in which the accumulated intertextual influences of manifold versions of the same text can influence both the form taken by any new adaptation and the readings which may be placed upon it. As highlighted by Thomas M. Leitch, screen versions of Sherlock Holmes have, since his cinematic debut,1 accumulated a range of elements not deriving from Doyle’s original source material. The iconography of Holmes in the majority is drawn ‘not merely from [the] literary originals but from a mixture of visual texts, from illustrations to earlier film and television versions’ (208). Leitch points out that such iconic images as Holmes’ deerstalker and inverness cape,2 not to mention the curved calabash pipe, do not in fact originate
    [Show full text]